Nothomicrodon

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Nothomicrodon aztecarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Phoridae
Genus:
Nothomicrodon

Wheeler, 1924
Species:
N. aztecarum
Binomial name
Nothomicrodon aztecarum
Wheeler, 1924

Nothomicrodon aztecarum is a species of

Neotropical flies, originally described from a larva collected in 1924 from a carton nest of the ant Azteca trigona. It is the only species in the genus Nothomicrodon, but shows none of the features of a hoverfly larva, the family in which it was originally classified,[1] and instead belongs in the family Phoridae.[2]

References

  1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3
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  2. ^ Gabriela Pérez-Lachaud, Benoit J. B. Jahyny, Gunilla Ståhls, Graham Rotheray, Jacques H. C. Delabie & Jean-Paul Lachaud (2017) Rediscovery and reclassification of the dipteran taxon Nothomicrodon Wheeler, an exclusive endoparasitoid of gyne ant larvae. Scientific Reports 7: 45530 doi:10.1038/srep45530
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